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Quiz: At noon, which phase could the observer see?
Ans: Waxing crescent
Quiz: When could you see a full moon?
Ans: sunset, midnight, sunrise
Quiz: When the moon is seen as full in WA, what is the phase of the
moon as viewed twelve hours later from the opposite side of the Earth?
Ans: Full
Quiz: If you were on the moon, could you see the Earth go through
phases?
Ans: Yes
Quiz: Kepler's first law
Ans: Rather than circular orbits, planets have elliptical orbits, with the sun at
one focus
Quiz: Kepler's second law
Ans: Planets change speeds as they orbit, moving fastest as they are closest
to the sun
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,Quiz: Kepler's third law
Ans: Planets close to the sun travel on shorter orbits than planets that are
farther away from the sun
Quiz: Galileo's first discovery
Ans: Jupiter has four moons orbiting, which supports that they weren't
orbiting around Earth
Quiz: Galileo's second discovery
Ans: Venus acted a lot like the moon related to phases, which was orbiting
around the Sun
Quiz: Newton's first law
Ans: Objects in motion must stay in motion
Quiz: Newton's second law
Ans: If a net force acts on an objects, then an objects motion changes
Quiz: Newton's third law
Ans: Forces come in pairs, for every action, there is an equal and opposite
reactions
Quiz: Newton's law of gravity
Ans: F= (G*M1*M2)/ (r^2)
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, Quiz: When viewed from the Earth which of these objects could appear
in a crescent phase?
Ans: Venus, a comet that crosses the Earth's orbit, small asteroid on orbit
entirely between Venus' and Earth's orbits
Quiz: Consider two planets, A and B, orbiting a distant star. Planet B
orbits twice as far from the star as Planet A does. how does planet B's
orbital period compare to planet A's?
Ans: More than twice as long
Quiz: The Asteroid Belt is a ring of debris which resides between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter in the Solar System. If an object in the Asteroid
belt is location 2.8AU from the Sun, how long does it take to make one
complete orbit around the Sun?
Ans: 4.7 years
Quiz: Comets orbit the Sun on highly eccentric orbits (e>0.8). When a
comet is at closest approach to the Sun, it is said to be at perihelion.
When it is farthest from the Sun the comet is said to be at aphelion.
Which of the following statements is correct?
Ans: The comet is moving slower at aphelion than perihelion
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